web data extraction python projects code example

Example 1: web scraper python

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> raw_html = open('contrived.html').read()
>>> html = BeautifulSoup(raw_html, 'html.parser')
>>> for p in html.select('p'):
...     if p['id'] == 'walrus':
...         print(p.text)

'I am the walrus'

Example 2: web scraper python

>>> raw_html = simple_get('http://www.fabpedigree.com/james/mathmen.htm')
>>> html = BeautifulSoup(raw_html, 'html.parser')
>>> for i, li in enumerate(html.select('li')):
        print(i, li.text)

0  Isaac Newton
 Archimedes
 Carl F. Gauss
 Leonhard Euler
 Bernhard Riemann

1  Archimedes
 Carl F. Gauss
 Leonhard Euler
 Bernhard Riemann

2  Carl F. Gauss
 Leonhard Euler 
 Bernhard Riemann

 3  Leonhard Euler
 Bernhard Riemann

4  Bernhard Riemann

# 5 ... and many more...